Coupures de Presse [ le 28 juin]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

Google Google recherche les images Google vient de lancer en version Beta un outil de recherche d'images qui semble très performant. (Abondance) futur(e)s No Futur(e)s Agefi - Le rêve touche à sa fin pour Alain Fabarez. Agefi Group a décidé hier de suspendre la parution de son dernier-né, le mensuel Futur(e)s, après huit numéros. Quel dommage... (Swiss Business Computing newsletter) Loft Story eBay se meuble chez Loft Story Depuis le 19 juin dernier, le mobilier du Loft est mis aux enchères sur eBay. Le fruit des ventes est destiné à être reversé à une association pour handicapés mentaux. (transfert)

Press clippings [ June 28 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Salon Salon to Launch News-Feed Service The owner of the site, which faces delisting from the Nasdaq, says it will make about 100 articles a week available for syndication. (The Industry Standard)

Universal Access Opinion: Web access for all For the first time, the philosophy that gave America wheelchair ramps is being extended to the internet. Websites maintained by the federal government will have to guarantee access to the blind, the deaf and other disabled people. (FT)

Good News Microsoft drops Smart Tags from Windows XP The software giant decides to exclude the technology that could alter the Web surfing habits of millions of consumers from the version of its next-generation operating system. (News.com) Microsoft will share source code for some tools In its latest move in the hotly debated arena of open-source software, Microsoft said Wednesday that it will make available the source code of its newest development tools for academic and other non-commercial uses. (SV.com)

The Olympics Microsoft Wins the Winter Games The Microsoft portals will host and publish official sites for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. And it's getting the rights for free. (The Industry Standard)

Yahoo! Yahoo ads close in on visitors' locale New technology can pinpoint a person's location by city, state and country, letting Yahoo serve ads that may be more targeted to the visitor. (News.com)

AOL Wireless BUDDIES? --- DAVENETICS AOL will extend their AOL Anywhere efforts with a deal to push their content and services out to AT&T wireless customers. (ZDNet / Davenetics)

Nokia Mobile-Phone Maker Nokia Discloses Plans to Lay Off 900 to 1000 Workers Nokia Corp. will cut its staff by 900 to 1,000 workers globally as it seeks to remain competitive in an increasingly tight mobile communications market. (WSJ) Paid subscription required. Thieves go for Nokia Armed robbers soaked staff in petrol and took off with 10,000 Nokia phones, collectively valued at about EUR 5 million. London Police claims the raid was well planned, and that the crooks knew exactly what they were looking for. (WAP.com)

Napster Napster sings a new song Napster, the online song swapping service, yesterday struck a landmark deal which will allow users to access tracks from artists including Moby, Badly Drawn Boy, Tom Jones and Paul Oakenfold. (The Guardian) Napster sued over meditation music A US company that sells meditation music has filed a federal lawsuit against the file-swapping internet site Napster. (Ananova)

E-Commerce Web shoppers are big spenders A survey of the habits of consumers has found that Sweden has the biggest proportion of people who buy gifts, groceries, CDs and holidays online. (BBC)

Sexism Internet firms are as sexist as old economy, report says New internet-based companies are as sexist as the old economy, according to a new report. Management Today magazine listed the top 25 internet start-up companies - and only three women were listed as founders. (Ananova)

Harry Potter Peek at 'Potter' trailer causes buzz on Internet It seems a reader with America Online leaked the new trailer for the upcoming movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" to the Potter fan site The Leaky Cauldron, two days before the official Internet premiere of the trailer on AOL. (CNN)